BY PAMELA FAYERMAN
The posts I’ve written on what doctors earn capture more readers than almost anything else on this Medicine Matters website. I can’t prove it but I strongly suspect that doctors are just as curious about what their colleagues are making as patients are about what their doctors are billing the Medical Services Plan.
Not all provinces report doctors’ billings but BC has since 1971. I chuckled when I read that the annual ... Read More …

By Pamela Fayerman
Even though the provincial government now covers the costs of lenses and medical care related to cataract surgery, it would appear some BC opthalmologists are still charging patients additional fees.
And that, according to the ministry of health, is wrong.
“If it’s a straight monofocal lens….there should be no charge. Ophthalmologists are well compensated for that work,” said ministry of health spokesman Ryan Jabs.
Since I wrote this story back in ... Read More …